Chicago Anderson Pressed Brick Co. v. Reininger

The appellee, a boy sixteen years old at the time of the injury of which he complains, sued the appellants for such injury, alleging that it was caused by their setting him to work upon a machine in a manner known to them, but not to him, to be dangerous.

The machine was for pressing brick of dry pulverized clay, and consisted of a horizontal revolving table, five feet in diameter, around the edge of which were arranged eight pairs of molds to receive the clay. The clay was fed down from a spout into the molds, and at the same instant a plunger pressed the clay into the pair of molds next but…